Yemen, sentence 144

From Wikipedia, «Yemen», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

The Mamluks tried to attach Yemen to Egypt and the Portuguese led by Afonso de Albuquerque, occupied the island of Socotra and made an unsuccessful attack on Aden in 1513.

Who acts: Mamluks · What happens: try, attach, lead, occupy, make · To what, where: Yemen, Egypt, island, unsuccessful attack, Aden

This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Yemen». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mamluks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mamluks	det
2	Mamluks	mamluk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 attach	mark
5	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	Yemen	Yemen	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 attach	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Egypt	case
8	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 attach	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Portuguese	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Portuguese	det
11	Portuguese	Portuguese	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Egypt	conj
12	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 attach	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 Afonso	case
14	Afonso	Afonso	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 led	obl:agent
15	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Afonso	flat
16	Albuquerque	Albuquerque	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Afonso	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 occupied	punct
18	occupied	occupy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 island	det
20	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 occupied	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Socotra	case
22	Socotra	Socotra	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 island	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 occupied	conj
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 attack	det
26	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 attack	amod
27	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 Aden	case
29	Aden	Aden	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 attack	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 1513	case
31	1513	1513	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 made	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	the Mamluks					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	attach not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mamluks not said here	Yemen	Egypt and the Portuguese			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent yemen=Patient to egypt=Co-Patient
3	lead	participle	the Mamluks not said here				Afonso obl:agent	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
4	occupy	past		the island of Socotra				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus island=Experiencer
5	make	past		a unsuccessful attack		Aden	in 1513	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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Yemen, sentence 144